I'm just going to say my opinion and only my opinion, i recently stopped playing LSRP, been a big defender of the server and i probably will continue to defend it as one of the best RP servers i have played on and i never gave up on the project, not until recently, my RP revolves around civilian RP, i manage a nightclub, i'm out of business simply because i can't find staff to hire, my RP needs other players, and i won't change my RP well simply because i feel comfortable RPing as a civilian, unfortunately due to lack of interest no new players are joining the server now, it's just the usuals and everyone is already established, impossible to find new players to hire, my company had 20 staff member at the start, from security to bartenders to DJs, all of it, we even used to give other businesses our staff, but everyone simply stopped playing for whatever reasons it's their choice, and now company/civilian side is very dead, we can only see small businesses opening recently that doesn't require alot of staff members (pit stop/tavern) just small bars, the last big venue that was standing was Dalton Royal with the serbs simple because their faction is huge and they can cover all staff, so i started going broke, and stopped playing (not gonna farm a scripted job for hours, i rather talk to people than do that but even now, you can't find people to talk to, it's just the usuals at every business opening)
Ow and downloading a 5gb file everytime there is an update is not happening, no wonder new people can't join, they can't even download the server data, not all of us use discord to know that you need to download the files from lsrp website
(sorry if somethings i said aren't clear, i'm not the best at explaining myself)